RE: World's longest burnout: Time for Tea
Thursday 10th March 2016
Manufacturers are always trying to jump on the social media bandwagon when it comes to launching a new product, but you have to hand it to Victory Motorcycles for this one. The firm's new Octane was unveiled a few days ago in America and to celebrate the fact, Victory has set an official Guinness World Record for the longest burnout.
World's longest burnout: Time for Tea?
Shameless publicity stunt actually turns out quite cool
Stunt rider Joe Dryden managed 2.23 miles before the tyre eventually popped and, if you listen to the commentary on the video, it sounds like his front brake was about to catch fire anyway! Shameless a publicity stunt as it is, watching the video is still quite funny...
See it here.
Discussion
stephen300o said:
Bored with kids skids
You make it sound like you are an expert at this sort of thing.In the meantime, whilst you practice doing some cones on a bike whilst not wobbling too much some Gary McCoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSIX0lNSVo
Slide to wheely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqxykKDck0
for you to aim towards.
Gandahar said:
stephen300o said:
Bored with kids skids
You make it sound like you are an expert at this sort of thing.In the meantime, whilst you practice doing some cones on a bike whilst not wobbling too much some Gary McCoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSIX0lNSVo
Slide to wheely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqxykKDck0
for you to aim towards.
Whats the point? Its illegal in many countries, its a waste of money / tires, and, really, who is going to do a 2 mile burnout in the real world? I can barely get more than 100 yards up the road before seeing traffic here in south London. Kudos to you if you have empty roads, but somehow I suspect we wont be seeing you doing a 2 mile burnout either.
Video from you, or it didn't happen.
Says more about the tyre than anything. The hardest part about a rolling burnout is getting it started. Once your up and running, it's just a bit of clutch control and feathering the front brake. As with cars, a spinning wheel is less volatile than a gripping one, I'll always maintain.
I blew a rear tyre out doing it once as a warm up show for a local RWYB Drag event. The belting wrapped itself around the brake caliper so that the wheel wouldn't spin any more. Had to snip through a load of it with side cutters and then push it from the circuit. Then figure out how me and my brother were going to get home
Crowd seemed to like it though.
I blew a rear tyre out doing it once as a warm up show for a local RWYB Drag event. The belting wrapped itself around the brake caliper so that the wheel wouldn't spin any more. Had to snip through a load of it with side cutters and then push it from the circuit. Then figure out how me and my brother were going to get home
Crowd seemed to like it though.
Reardy Mister said:
Says more about the tyre than anything. The hardest part about a rolling burnout is getting it started. Once your up and running, it's just a bit of clutch control and feathering the front brake. As with cars, a spinning wheel is less volatile than a gripping one, I'll always maintain.
I blew a rear tyre out doing it once as a warm up show for a local RWYB Drag event. The belting wrapped itself around the brake caliper so that the wheel wouldn't spin any more. Had to snip through a load of it with side cutters and then push it from the circuit. Then figure out how me and my brother were going to get home
Crowd seemed to like it though.
A friend of mine decided to "finish off" his rear tyre by doing a burn out. He spent the next day getting bits of tyre out of the rear shock and the caliper, then ordered a new numberplate and holder, both got damaged by the tyre structure when it let go.I blew a rear tyre out doing it once as a warm up show for a local RWYB Drag event. The belting wrapped itself around the brake caliper so that the wheel wouldn't spin any more. Had to snip through a load of it with side cutters and then push it from the circuit. Then figure out how me and my brother were going to get home
Crowd seemed to like it though.
He didn't do it with the next one funnily enough!
Alex@POD said:
A friend of mine decided to "finish off" his rear tyre by doing a burn out. He spent the next day getting bits of tyre out of the rear shock and the caliper, then ordered a new numberplate and holder, both got damaged by the tyre structure when it let go.
He didn't do it with the next one funnily enough!
Its not without its drawbacks He didn't do it with the next one funnily enough!
Mine just wore into two halves and a load of spaghetti.
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